I always think about the small market teams as being one godlike QB away from a significant market bump. Think about the Post Baltimore colts. Jim Haurbaugh gets them into the playoffs for the 1st time in 15 ish years, Peyton Manning gets drafted and now Luck. I hope with the better ownership/management, these teams can grab a marquee QB and captivate their fans.

I feel like Indianapolis has gotten really lucky by having high draft picks during QB heavy drafts. Teams like the Raiders, Browns and the Jaguars etc. always seem to miss the boat or get saddled with QBs who sabotage themselves or have terrible offensive lines & receivers that make them look terrible.

Which is why everyone else in the AFC South hates the Colts. They're like a totally average guy who somehow scores a hot wife and now all of a sudden he's the shit. They're married for awhile, but then he divorces her when she gets too old for him, and he's single for literally a week before he starts dating a much younger, equally hot babe, whom he marries a year later. Meanwhile all his neighbors are trying to make things work with their struggling relationships with average women, so they resent how awesome everyone thinks this guy is because of the girl on his arm.

They did the same exact thing to the Browns a season or two ago. Posted the schedule, wrote some demeaning blurb, took it down after backlash. They should change up whatever department puts those things together, it's not the league's responsibility to trash talk its own teams.

Its not even that they shit talked us. They could have said something along the lines of us being bad and probably losing the game. That would not irritate me. They went out and said our fanbase would be better elsewhere. That is a jab to the fanbase not just the team.

The Jaguars haven't always been awful, FWIW. They went 15-3 in 1999. The Texans, historically, are a worse team during the same span, though it's very close. Since 2002, the Texans are 79–113 (.411). In that same span, the Jags are 82-110 (.427). But no one does the "lol Texans" thing. And by only comparing them from 2002 on, you throw out some of the Jaguar's most dominating seasons from 1997-2000. It just erks me when people make it sound like the Jaguars have been awful since the expansion, and they're just now gaining some sort of relevance. Not that that was your intention, I just make it a point to throw that out there. People used to hate having to play the AFC Central.

Here's how I see it: if I can get people to remember that the Jaguars were great once, then they'll have to remember who they lost to three times in 1999. Besides, the past few years has been Texans/Colts. It's about time the Titans and Jags fucked up the NFCS.

Ya, I don't want to be a baby about the whole thing but the fact that it was the official website of the NFL is what made people mad. It would have been like everything we read every day and no big deal if it came from ESPN or a different media source.

This is why companies and corporate entities have to be careful with what they put out there to the public. A news agency would be perfectly justified in saying that the NFL is implying it intends to move the Jaguars to London.

"Confirmed move" would be irresponsible journalism, but "confirmed intention" wouldn't be out of place.

Jeez. That's the "insult"? It's a joke about them playing in London three times by 2016, which is a lot compared to league average. Sure, given the fact that the team sucks and attendance there is below league average it probably was best that it was edited out, but the reaction to the original statement is like a class of high school students saying "ooooh" to something that the teacher said because they're so goddamned used to looking for hidden insults that they can't take a comment at face value.

if any team gets moved there this is what they should be named. they should also never play the patriots so i never have to root for them. but in all seriousness i think it would be totally stupid to move a team to london

they made a joke about the team that plays in london the most maybe moving to London since its public knowledge that the NFL wants a London team. They didn't say the Jags suck, they didn't say Jacksonville can't support a team, they just made the natural leap of NFL wants London team + Jags play in London a lot = London Jaguars.

I don't understand how you guys can take this stuff so seriously. Like the people who believe an insult to their team is an insult to them personally... guys this is just a game. Its a sport. Its for fun (being a fan at least).

Its not very professional for the league's own media outlet to take a jab at a team like that but labeling it slander is just ridiculous. Relax and lighten up a bit.

Those of you spewing the same garbage from 2009 about the attendance, finances, and the team moving need to do your own research instead of grabbing that low hanging fruit that the uneducated national media has been dangling in your faces.

The statistics you're assuming are true are not. The team is locked into a lease and the city and owner just spent $63 million on stadium renovations, to include construction of the largest scoreboards in the world.

The post on NFL.com was an unprofessional, stupid joke made by someone who thought they were being clever. They also originally got the actual facts incorrect, stating that the Jags/Cowboys game would be the first of three for Jacksonville in London.

It's absolute garbage that national media and brainless, uneducated fans everywhere are repeating the same crap about the Jaguars without actually investigating for themselves. The team is ascending, they have a widely respected coach and front office staff, and there hasn't been a blackout in years. The attendance per-capita is nowhere near the bottom, and the stadium is way too large for the population - yet it was still about 90% full for each home game (better than the Steelers, Rams, Redskins, Dolphins, and Raiders).

The Jaguars are not going anywhere, and parroting rhetoric from 2009 makes you look ignorant.

EDIT: For the new guys asking what it said. The write-up about the week 16 schedule mentioned the London game between the Jags and Cowboys, gave an incorrect tidbit about how many times the Jags have played in London, and then said "The London Jaguars does have an excellent ring to it." If you want to see an image of what the site originally looked like before the editors amended it, here's Big Cat Country's article.

I'd rather you not understand this than ever have to deal with the jokes, rumors, constant negative attention for your city from people who have never been there, or even having your team leave. As a Green Bay fan you'll probably never experience it and that's great. But for the cities that do, getting a little 'fuck you' by the organization on something as simple as the schedule release is not cool.

Jokes about the Jaguars moving is just lazy journalism plain and simple. Ignoring the fact that the Jaguars have not had a blackout since 2009, and that 6 other teams have had blackouts more recently than the Jaguars, teams don't relocate because of blackouts. Teams relocate because of issues with stadiums and stadium leases. The renovations to the score boards at the Jaguars stadium this summer total $63 million, with $36.4 coming from the city and $26.5 coming from the team. The city and new owner have put their money where their mouth is and demonstrated a commitment to professional football in Jacksonville. The stadium isn't Jerry's World, but is still generates plenty of revenue.